<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" standalone="yes"?><oembed><version><![CDATA[1.0]]></version><provider_name><![CDATA[Yoshizen&#039;s Blog]]></provider_name><provider_url><![CDATA[https://yoshizen.wordpress.com]]></provider_url><author_name><![CDATA[yoshizen]]></author_name><author_url><![CDATA[https://yoshizen.wordpress.com/author/yoshizen/]]></author_url><title><![CDATA[ABOUT  this  BLOG]]></title><type><![CDATA[link]]></type><html><![CDATA[<p>The inherent shortcoming of this blog site is, as it having reverse order, the earliest, hence most</p>
<p>crucial posts are situated in the bottom.</p>
<p><strong>Who</strong> is the author, what is his <strong>stance</strong>, what is the <strong>point unique to this BLOG</strong> are all buried  long long</p>
<p>scrolled down bottom.  Even worse, now the posts became too many &#8212;&#8212; and some are not necessary</p>
<p>very relevant to the point. ( <span style="color:#ff00ff;"><strong>I&#8217;m well aware.  Yet, they are fun to read jokes.</strong></span> 🙂  )</p>
<p>Originally this site should have had &#8221; ABOUT &#8221; though, may be with my mis-click, it has disappeared.</p>
<p>Hence, often I got the same question, and needed to explain  What is my point again and again.</p>
<p><strong>So, this is the <span style="color:#ff0000;">summary of the POINT</span> of this BLOG. (Yet it became rather long</strong> &#8212;&#8212;<strong> so, to a busy</strong></p>
<p><strong>person, just hop bold paragraphs to grasp summary of summary)</strong></p>
<p><strong><span style="color:#ffffff;">&#8212; </span></strong></p>
<p><span style="color:#000080;"><strong>I&#8217;m not talking DOGMA. I only talk the observed FACTS of which the Buddha&#8217;s teachings </strong></span></p>
<p><span style="color:#000080;"><strong>based on it.  As Buddha ordered &#8221; Don&#8217;t believe. Think yourself &#8221; Buddhism is not about what</strong></span></p>
<p><span style="color:#000080;"><strong>you believe but the fact you found and came to your own conclusion. </strong></span></p>
<p><span style="color:#000080;"><strong>If there wasn&#8217;t the fact,  Buddha wouldn&#8217;t have taught.  That&#8217;s why he kept silence where he</strong></span></p>
<p><strong><span style="color:#000080;">couldn&#8217;t find the facts. </span></strong><span style="color:#000080;">&#8212;&#8212;</span><strong><span style="color:#000080;"> So, I follow him in the same way. </span><br />
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<p><strong><span style="color:#ffffff;">&#8212;&#8211;</span><br />
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<p><strong>ZEN Buddhism is a peculiar teaching, probably the most strange teaching in the human history.</strong></p>
<p><strong>It doesn&#8217;t teach Dogma or knowledges but only vague direction and resulting outcome would be.</strong></p>
<p><strong>At least, the<span style="color:#0000ff;"> outcome is impressive and they are not a tricked belief, just the factual results.</span></strong></p>
<p><strong>It is the teachings to <span style="color:#ff0000;">make a person actually able to do.</span></strong><span style="color:#ff0000;">&#8212;&#8212;</span><strong> Yet still, no explanation of how, why.</strong></p>
<p><strong>A person has to try and do it again and again.</strong> &#8212;&#8212;<strong> (The secret is hidden in this process itself)<br />
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<p><strong>This BLOG is the attempt to find out its HOW and WHY by the own experiment, and its findings.</strong></p>
<p><strong>Hence, this BLOG can be cited as a<span style="color:#ff0000;"> DIY ZEN BLOG.</span><br />
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<p><span style="color:#ffffff;">&#8212;&#8211;</span></p>
<p><span style="color:#000080;"><strong>In my view, the Buddhism especially the Zen teachings are the way to re-program the human</strong></span></p>
<p><span style="color:#000080;"><strong>subconsciousness.</strong></span> The all the creatures live and behave according to their behavioral pattern or</p>
<p>tendency which were programmed in their brain.</p>
<p><span style="color:#ff0000;"><strong>Though, in the case of human, we have the consciousness and self-awareness which over-ride </strong></span></p>
<p><span style="color:#ff0000;"><strong>the basic subconscious such as so-called instincts.</strong></span></p>
<p>Subconscious is not just the genetically inherited instincts, far from it, most of them are the</p>
<p>burnt into pattern which we learned and accumulated from the early experiences.</p>
<p>The basis of those experiences may not from the experience which we experienced or observed</p>
<p>consciously. &#8212;&#8212;- <span style="color:#ff0000;"><strong>burst amount of our experiences and the knowledges were imprinted even</strong></span></p>
<p><span style="color:#ff0000;"><strong>without our conscious.</strong></span> Yet still, the experience is one&#8217;s hard evidence / and reliable knowledge base.</p>
<p><span style="color:#000080;"><strong>So that, to live and behave according to those knowledge base,  would be the safest choice.</strong></span></p>
<p><span style="color:#000080;"><strong>As it was actually happened on front of him, and repeated again, it could happen yet again.<br />
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<p><span style="color:#000080;"><strong>Therefore, it would be the Truth or most likely and pragmatically most viable answer.</strong></span></p>
<p><span style="color:#000080;"><strong><span style="color:#ff0000;">( So, our brain burn this Data into a permanent memory and create a link to react automatically)</span><br />
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<p><span style="color:#000080;"><strong>We are thinking, deciding and acting unconsciously </strong>&#8212;&#8211;<strong> conscious verification follows afterward.<br />
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<p>As the one&#8217;s knowledge-base is the reflection of one&#8217;s grown-up and its environment, hence it is</p>
<p>unique to the person and form the so-called <strong>one&#8217;s second-nature</strong> &#8212;&#8211; <strong>and this second-nature </strong></p>
<p><strong>is the core of the deep hidden SELF.</strong></p>
<p>The self what the one is imagining is not  this SELF but the self what the one wished to have, since</p>
<p>the <span style="color:#333399;"><strong>one&#8217;s second nature (and of cause the First Nature too  🙂  ) is in one&#8217;s subconsciousness and </strong></span></p>
<p><span style="color:#333399;"><strong>in the unconsciousness</strong></span> &#8212;&#8212; <span style="color:#333399;"><strong>they are invisible or unnoticeable</strong></span> &#8212;&#8211; therefore hard to configure,</p>
<p>then, the conveniently made up self is filling the gap for one&#8217;s own explanation or for a pretext.</p>
<p><span style="color:#ffffff;">&#8212;&#8211;</span></p>
<p>Buddhism is not necessary attempting to <span style="color:#333399;"><strong>define this SELF but to define at least the imagined</strong></span></p>
<p><span style="color:#333399;"><strong>self is the false imagination / delusion,</strong></span> hence it is the <strong><span style="color:#333399;">subject to remove from one&#8217;s mind</span></strong>, saying</p>
<p><strong><span style="color:#ff0000;">&#8221; No such things (self) is there &#8220;.</span></strong> &#8212;&#8211; yet to advising the one to become aware that</p>
<p><strong><span style="color:#333399;">the SELF which is a part of the Dharma, is there since when the one was born</span>. </strong>Therefore,<strong> </strong></p>
<p><strong>all about the Buddhism is to remove this self and attain the MUSHIN (the Mind of No-Mind /</strong></p>
<p><strong>No-self ) and  become aware of the SELF / a part of the Dharma, by the repeating practice.</strong></p>
<p>( Since, to burn the Knowledge / Pattern / Data Memory  into one&#8217;s subconsciousness, needs to</p>
<p>have either almost traumatic experience or repeating the same experience or the thought ( Teaching ),</p>
<p>then it become a long-term memory and a part of one&#8217;s subconsciousness ).</p>
<p>Once the one&#8217;s subconscious was reprogrammed / reconditioned, and the biasing wishful thinking,</p>
<p>egoistic desire which has been nested in the so-called self  were removed, ( ideally )<span style="color:#333399;"><strong> there wouldn&#8217;t be </strong></span></p>
<p><span style="color:#333399;"><strong>any delusion or egoistic view, hence acquiring clear eyes and able to see the prevailing Dharma </strong></span></p>
<p><strong>which is inherently having harmony </strong><span style="color:#333399;"><strong>with all the existences.</strong></span></p>
<p><span style="color:#ff0000;"><strong>( Since, the existences itself is the Dharma )</strong></span><span style="color:#ff0000;"><strong>.</strong></span></p>
<p><span style="color:#ffffff;"><strong>&#8212;&#8211;</strong></span></p>
<p><span style="color:#008000;"><strong>Living with or accordance with the Dharma, one&#8217;s life become harmonized with all the existences</strong></span></p>
<p><span style="color:#008000;"><strong>and its flow of the occurrences (which is constantly changing, reflecting the dynamics of the Karma), </strong></span></p>
<p><span style="color:#008000;"><strong>one&#8217;s life wouldn&#8217;t go against or aggravating the Karma, </strong>&#8212;&#8211;<strong> as the result, one&#8217;s life become smooth </strong></span></p>
<p><span style="color:#008000;"><strong>and peaceful.  And it would lead to the peaceful Nirvana.</strong></span></p>
<p><span style="color:#008000;"><strong><span style="color:#ffffff;">&#8212;&#8211;</span><br />
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<p><span style="color:#ff0000;"><strong>Though, as it would be easily observed by anybody&#8217;s eyes, The Dharma is not operating  for </strong></span></p>
<p><span style="color:#333333;"><strong><span style="color:#ff0000;">the convenience of the human alone.</span><span style="color:#ffffff;"> &#8212;</span> <span style="color:#0000ff;"> It is the rules of the Universe. </span></strong></span></p>
<p><span style="color:#333333;">Often, the convenience of somebody is the inconvenience to other&#8217;s.  Tiger need to kill a deer to feed her cab. </span></p>
<p><span style="color:#333333;">Her success is a misfortune of the deer.  It would be no use to have sentimental emotion.  If it comes, it comes.</span></p>
<p><span style="color:#333333;">Same apply to our human life, to have silly desire is our nature, which was designed by the Dharma too.</span></p>
<p><span style="color:#ff0000;"><strong>Therefore the occurrence of silly Karma is also the nature of the Dharma.</strong> &#8212;&#8212;<strong> on the surface,</strong></span></p>
<p><span style="color:#ff0000;"><strong>it may seems silly or unjust, though as the one was placed here to fill the role, by the Dharma, </strong></span></p>
<p><span style="color:#ff0000;"><strong>in long-term, its appearance of the Dharma is the sign of one&#8217;s direction.</strong></span></p>
<p><span style="color:#ff0000;"><strong>Therefore, to fight against the Dharma is the silliest things as we can&#8217;t see the full extent of</strong></span></p>
<p><span style="color:#ff0000;"><strong>the implication of the Dharma, but better follow the direction and to fill the role what the one</strong></span></p>
<p><span style="color:#ff0000;"><strong>was assigned to do.  Therefore, What left in our hand is, to do the task as best as we can. </strong>&#8212;&#8212;</span></p>
<p><span style="color:#ff0000;"><span style="color:#0000ff;"><strong>Hence, on the end, as the result, we live of the life to its optimum and  its maximum potential.</strong></span></span></p>
<p><span style="color:#ff0000;"><span style="color:#0000ff;"><strong>( Does anybody want more ?  Or want to complain </strong>&#8212;&#8212;-<strong> saying too much ?   Oh, get lost  😀 )</strong></span></span></p>
<p><span style="color:#ff0000;"><span style="color:#333333;">( By the way, this &#8220;maximum potential&#8221; doesn&#8217;t include money, fame or power.  If anyone</span> <span style="color:#0000ff;"><span style="color:#333333;">seek it, you </span></span></span></p>
<p><span style="color:#ff0000;"><span style="color:#0000ff;"><span style="color:#333333;">came to wrong place.  You got to go to Mammon, not Buddha.   😀  )</span><strong><br />
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<p><span style="color:#ffffff;"><strong>&#8212;&#8211;</strong></span></p>
<p><span style="color:#ff0000;"><strong><span style="color:#333333;">So, the above is my explanation of </span> How the teachings of the Buddhism works.</strong></span></p>
<p><span style="color:#ff0000;"><strong></strong></span><span style="color:#333333;">And,  the Posts in <strong>this BLOG are my each experiences and findings, How Zen works and in deed </strong></span></p>
<p><span style="color:#333333;"><strong>worked, </strong>and the resulting effects, what is the out come / how I am living.</span></p>
<p><span style="color:#333333;">&#8212;&#8212; I&#8217;ve made a link of  this Post connecting to a Category, <strong> 001-ABOUT the BLOG.</strong></span></p>
<p><span style="color:#ff0000;"><span style="color:#333333;">So that if anybody need to come back here or directing others, just click a category  please  🙂</span></span></p>
<p><span style="color:#ff0000;"><span style="color:#333333;"><span style="color:#0000ff;"><strong>___/\___</strong></span></span></span></p>
<p><span style="color:#ff0000;"><span style="color:#333333;"><span style="color:#0000ff;"><strong><span style="color:#ffffff;">&#8212;-</span><br />
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